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Middle Tennessee State will celebrate its fourth year in Conference USA in 2017, and Commissioner Britton Banowsky said Wednesday he would like to bring the league's men's basketball tournament to Nashville that year.

That's the next window when Bridgestone Arena would be available for such an event.

The SEC men's tournament will be played there this year and the NCAA Women's Final Four next year. Then the SEC men's tournament will return in 2015 and 2016. ...